Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 178, issue C, 2026

This business is mine! Intra-household effects of property rights in micro-enterprises

Victor Pouliquen

Community monitoring and social accountability in development projects: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Nathan Fiala and Patrick Premand

A two-wave death story: fentanyl overdoses in the US, bullets in Mexico

Iván López Cruz and Gustavo Torrens

The unintended consequences of trade protection on the environment

Taipeng Li, Lorenzo Trimarchi, Rui Xie and Guohao Yang

The mismeasure of weather: Using earth observation data for estimation of socioeconomic outcomes

Anna Josephson, Jeffrey D. Michler, Talip Kilic and Siobhan Murray

Inside the black box of child penalties: Unpaid work and household structure

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Eva O. Arceo-Gomez and Elia De la Cruz Toledo

How much do our neighbors really know? The limits of community-based targeting

Carly Trachtman, Yudistira Hendra Permana and Gumilang Aryo Sahadewo

Community effects of electrification: Evidence from Burkina Faso’s grid extension

Maika Schmidt and Alexander Moradi

Keeping an eye on the villain: Assessing the impact of surveillance cameras on crime

Hong Ma, Mingzhi Xu, Wei You and Jinmei Feng

Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina

Nicolás Abbate and Bruno Jiménez

Career incentives and judicial independence: Evidence from the Indian lower judiciary

Jun Goto

Good from Far, Far from Good: The impacts of the 2016 female labor reform in Iran

Maggie Xiaoyang Chen and Ebad Ebadi

Increasing women’s empowerment: Evaluating two interventions in Uganda

Kate Ambler, Kelly M. Jones and O’Sullivan, Michael

The effect of teacher training and community literacy programming on teacher and student outcomes

Feliciano Chimbutane, Naureen Karachiwalla, Catalina Herrera-Almanza, Jessica Leight and Carlos Lauchande

Asylum seekers and host country mental health: Evidence from Germany and Switzerland

Prashant Bharadwaj, Daniel Graeber, Stephanie Khoury and Christian P.R. Schmid

Saving an old regime with new elites? The unintended effects of co-opting foreign-educated councilors in China

Chu Lin, Wei Sun and Chengli Wang

Flood shocks, heterogeneous risk exposure, and housing market dynamics in China

Yu Zhao, Yichen Yang and Ning Zhang

The national-integration effect of compulsory education: Evidence from Chinese minorities

Zhi-An Hu and Wei Luo

Estimating multidimensional development resilience

Seungmin Lee, Kibrom A. Abay, Christopher B. Barrett and John Hoddinott

Politicians doing business: Evidence from Mozambique

Sam Jones, Felix Schilling and Finn Tarp

Understanding social safety nets and intra-household food allocation: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh

Fiona M. Coleman, Akhter U. Ahmed, Shalini Roy and John Hoddinott

Using computerized information to enforce VAT: Evidence from Pakistan

Jawad Shah

Beyond poverty reduction: Evidence from a multifaceted program on poverty, nutrition and child development

Adrien Bouguen and Andrew Dillon

Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? Experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati and Yiming Xia

Industrial policy in a new era: Government venture capital in the US–China trade war

Y. Joy Chen, Robin Kaiji Gong and Jinlin Li

Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial

Jeffrey R. Bloem and Clark Lundberg

Transfers, information and management advice: Direct effects and complementarities in Malawi

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

Editorial to special issue on migration and development

Sam Bazzi, Patricia Cortes, Hillel Rapoport and Dean Yang

Police autonomy, data-driven strategies, and violence: Evidence from Brazil’s policing reform

Rafael Parfitt, Bruno Pantaleão and Alberto Kopittke

Unshrouding product-specific attributes through financial education

Olga Balakina, Vimal Balasubramaniam, Aditi Dimri and Renuka Sane

Confined to stay: Migration restrictions, natural disasters, and poverty

Andrea Cinque, Esther Gehrke and Lennart Reiners

From open to closed societies: Inequality, migration, and women's rights

Marco Casari, Maurizio Lisciandra and Ali Seyhun Saral

Solving coordination failures: Collective land transfer rights and rural entrepreneurship

Xin Lin, Eddie Chi-man Hui, Zhenglong Cong and Jianfu Shen

The chilling effects of unsuccessful antidumping investigations on firm export dynamics

Ming Chen, Wen Chen, Ling Feng, Zhiyuan Li and Deborah L. Swenson

Attitudes towards reducing fossil fuel subsidies: Evidence across 12 middle-income countries

Christopher Hoy, Yeon Soo Kim, Minh Cong Nguyen, Mariano Sosa and Sailesh Tiwari

The agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters

Rajveer Jat and Bharat Ramaswami

Volume 177, issue C, 2025

Corruption and extremism

Attila Gáspár, Tommaso Giommoni, Massimo Morelli and Antonio Nicolo'

Hairdressers and well-being: Local services provision and mental health first response

Björn Nilsson and Clémence Pougué Biyong

Agricultural modernization and redistributive conflict

Stefano Falcone and Michele Rosenberg

Property rights, sick pay and effort supply

Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin and Andrés Dean

Internal migration and labor market adjustments in the presence of non-wage compensation

Raphael Corbi, Tiago Ferraz and Renata Narita

Fertility outcomes and parental well-being in later life: Evidence from India

Bilal Ahmad Bhat, Esha Chatterjee and Sounak Thakur

Occupational mismatch and market power

Felipe Balmaceda

Promoting Innovative Startups: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Tunisia

Nadia Ali, Massimiliano Calì and Bob Rijkers

Price and prejudice: Gender discrimination in online marketplaces

Sher Afghan Asad, Husnain Fateh Ahmad and Hadia Majid

Holi crimes: The impact of a public festivity on violence against women

Ruben Poblete-Cazenave and Claudia Martínez V.

Global income poverty measurement with preference heterogeneity: Theory and application

Benoit Decerf, Mery Ferrando and Natalie Naïri Quinn

Improving school leadership in Rwanda

Simeon Lauterbach, Lee Crawfurd, Jocelyne C. Kirezi, Aimable Nsabimana and Jef Peeraer

Persistent yet ameliorable shocks to female entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from Kenya

Francisco Campos, Maria Hernandez-de-Benito, Julian C. Jamison, Abla Safir and Bilal Zia

Trade liberalization and quality upgrading: Third-country effects

Deniz Atalar

Spillovers in ICT adoption from formal to informal firms: Evidence from Zambia

Filip Jolevski, Gaurav Nayyar, Regina Pleninger and Shu Yu

Violent conflict and parochial trust: Lab-in-the-field and survey evidence

Katharina Werner and Ahmed Skali

Digital connectivity and firm participation in foreign markets: An exporter-based bilateral analysis

Michele Imbruno, Joël Cariolle and Jaime de Melo

Transportation infrastructure and deforestation in the Amazon

Rafael Araujo, Juliano Assunção and Arthur Bragança

Health, wealth, or equity? Trade-offs from households’ allocative decisions

Helen Harris-Fry and Mario Cortina-Borja

Why is female labor force participation declining in China? A perspective from urban commuting

Shenglong Liu, Xingyu Pan, Yuanyuan Wan, Xiaoming Zhang and Shaojie Zhou

Regulating manufacturing FDI: Local labor market responses to a protectionist policy in Indonesia

Esther Gehrke, Robert Genthner and Krisztina Kis-Katos

The colonial legacy in India: How persistent are the effects of historical institutions?

Lakshmi Iyer and Coleson Weir

From drains to bridges: The role of internationally mobile PhD students in linking non-mobile with foreign scientists

Rodrigo Ito, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan and Fabiana Visentin